• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

    Selling bitcoin requires actually bribing miners to commit the sale.

    They call it “paying gas” … but it is a bribe. How is a bribe in an unregulated market better ?

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      3 days ago

      That sounds more like paying them rent. Bribes pertain to paying an authority to do something illegal.

      Its parasitic behavior and bad. Submitting to it is a lesser evil compared to letting puritanical authoritarians dictate and censor however IMO.